Business big shot: Jane Hinkley

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Cookson has wasted no time in addressing the gender imbalance on the board of
one of the two companies that will be created through the demerger of the
business. It has appointed Jane Hinkley as a non-executive director of
Vesuvius less than a month after revealing its plan to split the group.

The engineering group said that the split would result in the engineered
ceramics division being rebranded as Vesuvius. It added that it would try to
bring in new directors to the company because the two women on the Cookson
board had opted to join Alent, the high-tech division